Dr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and businesswomen. She is also Donald Trump’s niece. Mary Trump is the author of the bestselling book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man . She warns that Donald Trump will tear down and assault the United States and the American people in an act of vengeance for his being defeated by Joe Biden on Election Day 2020. Mary Trump also wants the American people and the country’s news media to understand that mockin...
Jan 06, 2021•17 min•Ep 81•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of The Truth Report I am sharing a special New Year’s Eve episode of my other podcast The Chauncey DeVega Show . John Feffer is a futurist, foreign policy expert, social theorist, and author of the speculative fiction books Splinterlands and Frostlands . He is also Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The American Prospect, Salon, The Progressive, The Christian ...
Jan 01, 2021•44 min•Ep 80•Transcript available on Metacast Positive energy to all of you. I would also like to thank the kind Patreons and other good people who via Paypal have shown so much love for The Truth Report . On this episode of The Truth Report I am sharing a special Christmas holiday episode of my other podcast The Chauncey DeVega Show . I do hope you enjoy it. Jonathan Lethem is a best-selling essayist, novelist, and cultural critic. His books include Dissident Gardens , Chronic City , The Fortress of Solitude , The Feral Detective , and Mot...
Dec 25, 2020•50 min•Ep 79•Transcript available on Metacast Michael D’Antonio is the author of The Truth About Trump . His forthcoming book is High Crimes: The Corruption , Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump . D’Antonio is also a frequent commentator on CNN where he has appeared on Anderson Cooper 360, New Day, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, and Reliable Sources. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose essays and other writing have been featured by such leading publications as The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Los Angeles Times, The W...
Dec 15, 2020•32 min•Ep 78•Transcript available on Metacast Wajahat Ali is a playwright, attorney, and political analyst. He is also the author of the recent and widely-read New York Times essay, "'Reach Out to Trump Supporters,' They Said. I Tried." In addition to The New York Times, Ali's essays and other writing have appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York Review of Books, and The Washington Post. Ali shares what he as a Muslim-American learned from his efforts to find common ground and understanding with Trump's supporters. He also reflects ...
Dec 04, 2020•17 min•Ep 77•Transcript available on Metacast Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University and an expert on fascism and authoritarianism. Her opinion essays and other writing have been featured by CNN, the Washington Post, The New Yorker and the Atlantic. Ruth Ben-Ghiat's new book is Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present . She explains the real meaning and breadth of the Trump regime’s coup attempt and how societies begin to heal once authoritarian leaders have been removed. And Ben-Ghiat also highl...
Nov 23, 2020•20 min•Ep 76•Transcript available on Metacast Thom Hartmann is a national radio show host, New York Times bestselling-author, and leading progressive voice. His new book is The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream . Hartmann counsels that the American people -- and liberals and progressives in particular -- should be both optimistic and cautious about Joe Biden's presidency. He also explains that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have the potential to enact a progressive policy agenda if they are sufficientl...
Nov 13, 2020•15 min•Ep 75•Transcript available on Metacast Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His most recent book is America: The Farewell Tour . Hedges warns that if Joe Biden fails to rehabilitate America’s social democracy then the country will become even more of a plutocracy dominated by racism and other forms of cruelty. Even worse, Chris Hedges warns that if Biden does not relieve the deep pain being felt by wide swaths of American society then what follows will be a White Christian Fascis...
Nov 12, 2020•21 min•Ep 75•Transcript available on Metacast Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone. He is one of the United States’ and the world’s foremost experts on voter suppression, vote theft and vote fraud. He is the author of the bestselling books Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy . His new book is How Trump Stole 2020 . Greg Palast explains how Donald Trump and his agents are using the courts and other means to steal the pres...
Nov 05, 2020•16 min•Ep 73•Transcript available on Metacast Hello good members of The Truth Report family. I am sharing my special Election Day episode of my other podcast The Chauncey DeVega Show will all of you. Please vote. Please be prepared for whatever may happen. And remember whatever may happen -- including Trump "winning" -- that this is all a battle in a very long war. **** On this special Election Day episode, Chauncey DeVega goes solo and reflects on his and our feelings and emotions about America in the Age of Trump, this world historical mo...
Nov 03, 2020•22 min•Ep 72•Transcript available on Metacast David Kilcullen is one of the world’s leading experts on counterinsurgency and military strategy. He is a former diplomat and soldier who served as a counterinsurgency advisor during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq where he advised Condoleezza Rice and Gen. David Petraeus. Kilcullen is also the founding chairman of Caerus Associates His books include The Accidental Guerrilla, Counterinsurgency, Out of the Mountains, and Blood Year. His new book is The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learne...
Nov 02, 2020•25 min•Ep 71•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Dan McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Education and Social Policy, at Northwestern University. He is the author of almost 300 articles and chapters as well as seven books including The Art and Science of Personality Development and The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By . Dr. McAdams’ work has been featured in leading media outlets such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, CNN, and elsew...
Oct 29, 2020•22 min•Ep 70•Transcript available on Metacast Ralph Nader is an author, attorney, consumer advocate and activist, as well as five-time presidential candidate who has been fighting for the freedoms and rights of the American people for six decades. His new book (with co-author Mark Green) is Wrecking America: How Trump's Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All . Ralph Nader explains how the plutocrats and the corporatocracy are benefitting from the pandemic and why America’s mainstream news media and other voices have largely been silent if not comp...
Oct 26, 2020•17 min•Ep 69•Transcript available on Metacast Timothy Snyder is a Professor of History at Yale University and the author of the bestselling books On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century and The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America . His new book is Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary . Dr. Snyder explains why America's mainstream news media continues to avoid describing Donald Trump and his regime as fascist and authoritarian – and how such behavior, to this late date, continues to empower and normalize ...
Oct 18, 2020•21 min•Ep 68•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard and a professor emeritus at Princeton. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Democracy Matters , Race Matters and Black Prophetic Fire . Dr. West reflects upon questions of right and wrong, karma, and justice as related to how Donald Trump was recently hospitalized because he was infected by the virus. Dr. West also explains how true liberals and progressives should respond to Donald Trump being hospi...
Oct 13, 2020•22 min•Ep 67•Transcript available on Metacast James Poniewozik is chief television critic at the New York Times and author of the new book Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America . He explains what type of character Donald Trump is. How does Trump imagine his role? How did Donald Trump master the new rules of television and the media in the 21st century to gain so much power? James Poniewozik also ponders what would be the perfect ending for Donald Trump the character, and his bizarre epic story. WHERE CAN Y...
Oct 07, 2020•30 min•Ep 66•Transcript available on Metacast Rev. Al Sharpton is the host of MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation” and the founder and President of the civil rights organization National Action Network (NAN). Sharpton also hosts the nationally syndicated radio show, “Keepin’ it Real”. His new book is Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads . Rev. Al Sharpton reflects on the Age of Trump, the pandemic, and a season of protest and resistance. He also explains how Joe Biden should prepare to debate Donald Trump, a man that has no limits of morali...
Sep 29, 2020•23 min•Ep 65•Transcript available on Metacast Holden Thorp is a chemist, biologist, inventor, and now editor-in-chief of Science magazine, which has the largest number of paid subscribers for a peer-reviewed general science publication in the world. He has served as provost at both Washington University and University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Holden Thorp is the author of the recent widely read essay at Science magazine, “Trump lied about science”. Holden Thorp explains why he finally decided to publicly condemn Donald Trump and wh...
Sep 28, 2020•23 min•Ep 64•Transcript available on Metacast Tim Wise is one of the United States’ and the world’s leading antiracism activists and authors. His books include Dear White America , White Like Me , Speaking Treason Fluently , and Under the Affluence . His new book is Dispatches from the Race War . Tim Wise reflects on the recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and how her death has now made America’s multiracial democracy even more imperiled by the Age of Trump and his white neofascist movement. He also shares how the Tr...
Sep 24, 2020•24 min•Ep 63•Transcript available on Metacast Jim Sciutto is CNN's chief national security correspondent and co-anchor of CNN Newsroom. Sciutto previously served as ABC News’ senior foreign correspondent. As a foreign correspondent and in his other professional roles, Sciutto has traveled to and reported from more than 50 countries including Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. His new book is “The Madman Theory: Trump Takes On the World”. Sciutto explains that there is no strategic logic or so-called “madman theory” guiding Donald Trump and his co...
Sep 15, 2020•30 min•Ep 62•Transcript available on Metacast Stuart Stevens has worked as a strategist and consultant for the Republican Party at the highest levels including with the Dole, George W. Bush, Romney, and McCain presidential campaigns. He now serves as a senior advisor to the Lincoln Project, a political advocacy group founded by “Never-Trumpers” and former Republicans that is committed to defeating Donald Trump and his movement. His new book is, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump . Stuart Stevens explains how the ...
Aug 31, 2020•27 min•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone. He is one of the United States’ and the world’s foremost experts on voter suppression, vote theft and vote fraud. He is the author of the bestselling books Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy . His new book is How Trump Stole 2020 . He warns that the Trump regime and its agents are implementing a massive nationwide campaign to challenge t...
Aug 25, 2020•23 min•Ep 60•Transcript available on Metacast Simon Rosenberg is president of the New Democrats Network and the New Policy Institute, a liberal think tank based in Washington, DC. He has served as a senior advisor to the Democratic Party at the highest levels and has worked in two presidential campaigns, including a senior role in the 1992 Clinton “War Room”. Simon Rosenberg shares his thoughts on what issues should be prioritized during the first 100 days of a Joe Biden presidency. Rosenberg also explains how Donald Trump does not intend t...
Aug 18, 2020•30 min•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast Glenn Kirschner is an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst and teaches criminal law at George Washington University. He also worked in the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia office as a federal prosecutor/Assistant U.S. Attorney where he was supervised by Robert Mueller. Kirschner explains why Donald Trump and other members of his inner circle should be criminally prosecuted for manslaughter and/or negligent homicide because of their response to the pandemic. Kirschner also outlines...
Aug 14, 2020•24 min•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Justin Frank is the author of the book Donald Trump on the Couch . He is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than 40 years of experience in psychoanalysis. He is the author of the bestselling books Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch . Dr. Frank shares his thoughts about Mary Trump’s new book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man , how Donald Trump’s relationship ...
Jul 31, 2020•24 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University and an expert on fascism and authoritarianism. Her new book is Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present. Ruth Ben-Ghiat warns that Donald Trump’s threats of violence against the American people are very real. She also explains that the American news media has largely normalized Donald Trump because they are unable to admit that the United States is a failed democracy on the brink of full-on fascism. And Ruth Ben-Gh...
Jul 23, 2020•24 min•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-winning journalist, author, and philosopher. His most recent book is America: The Farewell Tour . He explains why this perilous moment in America with the pandemic and Trumpism will be looked back upon fondly, compared to what the future holds. Hedges also shares how he sees little hope in Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, which he believes have no substantive solutions for the social inequality and other institutional problems that spawned Donald Trump and his white...
Jul 16, 2020•21 min•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. John Gartner is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and former professor at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School. Dr. Gartner is also the founder of the Duty to Warn PAC, an organization working to raise awareness about the danger to the United States and the world posed by Donald Trump. He is a contributor to the 2017 bestseller "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Dr. Gartner is also featured in the upcoming documentary “Unfi...
Jul 13, 2020•18 min•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast Mike Davis is a historian, political activist, and writer. He is the author of many books including City of Quartz, Buda’s Wagon, and Planet of Slums . His new book is S et the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. Davis has also written for The Nation and The New Statesman among other magazines and publications. Davis is also an editor of the New Left Review. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. Davis is also a Distinguished Emeritus Professor in the Depart...
Jul 09, 2020•34 min•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach and Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival. Rev. Dr. Barber is also the architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement He is the author of several books including We Are Called to Be a Movement ; Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing ; The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear ; and Forward Together:...
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